The Ecology group in the Integrative Biology department at UT Austin would like to welcome applicants for admission in our two PhD programs, the graduate program in Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour & the graduate program in Plant Biology (https://cns.utexas.edu/eeb-graduate-program, https://cns.utexas.edu/plantbio-graduate-program). We have a long history of research scholarship in population, community, and ecosystem ecology, as well as several new ecology faculty joining us by the Fall of 2019! We are an interactive and diverse group of scientists with specialties in plant-animal/plant-microbe interactions, quantitative ecology, conservation biology, and evolutionary ecology, among other topics. The following is a list of faculty within the Ecology group potentially accepting students in the coming year. Caroline Farrior: Plant community ecology, theoretical ecology, global carbon cycle, forest dynamics website: https://sites.cns.utexas.edu/cfarrior Norma Fowler: Population ecology, plant community ecology, fire and herbivory, landscape ecology website: http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/fowler/
Larry Gilbert: Insect-plant coevolutionary,chemical and food web ecology. Invasion biology and basic biological underpinnings of biocontrol and management of problem insects and plants. Shalene Jha: Landscape genetics, population ecology, conservation biology, and foraging ecology website: https://w3.biosci.utexas.edu/jha/ Tom Juenger: Evolutionary ecology, genetics, genomics, local adaptation, physiological ecology website: https://sites.cns.utexas.edu/juenger_lab/home Tim Keitt: Landscape, population, community, biodiversity, computation and theory. website: www.keittlab.org Melissa Kemp: Conservation paleobiology, community ecology, evolutionary ecology, island biogeography. website: http://www.melissakemp.com Ulrich Mueller: Symbiosis, co-evolution, behavior, microbiology, genomics, natural history website: http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/Muelleru/index.html Brian Sedio: Community ecology, chemical ecology, chemical evolution, plant-insect interactions, plant-microbe interactions, forest ecology, comparative genomics, biogeography website: briansedio.weebly.com Amelia Wolf: Plant community and ecosystem ecology, species interactions, nutrient cycling, biodiversity website: ameliawolf.weebly.com Applications for both EEB and Plant Biology programs are due December 1st. Students are highly encouraged to begin a conversation with potential mentors before the deadline.
